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I've had enough. You've just lost another user. It was bad enough that with version 15 we lost everything but just as I get everything just the way I want you have to go and F*ck things up.

First of all the bookmark manager still sucks. And the lack of options in Speed dial. At first that stupid bar at the bottom was at the top and bearly visible but then you darkened it and jammmed it at the bottom of the window.

You could set the columns at one time to 2 and make the dials small so your background theme could show through. Now you limited to 3 columns and you cannot adjust the size so what is the point of the themes anyway. Especially your own custom ones when everything is blocked by those damn dials.

Then it's the automatic updates, the real deal killer in my case. I don't use Chrome for the reason that they don't give me any easy control of the updates. I've had to restore my Opera program to many times down from version 29 to 28.

I deleted the autoupdate programs and the update task only to have that bloody thing still update on me. I don't go to about:config because I know that can trigger an update.

Now I've discovered that just going to the settings can trigger an update. Thank you for respecting me as a user. One final note I finally found a way to control the updates, I just uninstalled Opera completely.

I'm currently using Seamonkey. You can delete this account to I will not be using it anymore.

I don't think so. Opera has given us very little control over speed dial and even less in the latest upgrade. That's why I reverted back to version 28 and disabled auto update. Maybe one day Opera will remember it's users and give us something that we want rather than what they think we should have.

You probably have to uninstall Opera 29 first. You might have to hunt down and delete any and all Opera folders on your hard drive.

It might be a issue of auto update updating the browser after opening.

When you install 28 don't open right away, instead search for and rename or delete on your hard drive any instance of a file called opera_autoupdate.exe and disable the task scheduler item. I like to use Ccleaner for this. In Ccleaner click on Tools on side menue, then start up and click on Scheduled Tasks and right click on the Opera update task - similar to: Opera scheduled Autoupdate 1400358009 Opera Software C:\Opera\launcher.exe --scheduledautoupdate

Thanks for responding but I found a solution myself. It was a bit extreme but I deleted the Opera install from it's folder and copied over all the files from a backup I had saved to an external source. Then I also searched and deleted all versions of opera_autoupdate.exe that I could find and disabled the task scheduler item. I also checked Windows services but found no update options there.

Also I must remember never to use the about:opera because that will imitate a automatic update. No thanks Opera.

Remember the good old days when Opera had an offending appendage you could just right click on and delete it.

I don't know if that makes since. I'm really getting tired of Opera. Just as you get it customized the way you want the bloody thing updates and everything is changed. I thought I disabled the auto update but I must of missed something.

Here's my problem. I like to us e pictures on my background speed dial. It's hard enough to find pictures with the subject far enough to the side to see properly. I set the columns at two and made the the speed dials as small as possible.

Now I'm forced three columns and no control over the size. On top of that that bar (not sure it's name) is now on the bottom. Personally I like to get rid of it all together. I noticed that Opera automatically backs up the previous version how do I resort back to it without doing a full Windows system restore.

I also searched and renamed all versions of opera_autoupdate.exe that I could find and disabled the task scheduler item - what else am I missing to stop theses updates?

Sometimes blocking extensions can block something that it shouldn't. Temporally disable µBlock and see if that makes the problem go away. I use Opera with Adblock plus and I've known it to interfere occasionally with pages loading properly. The site seems to work OK from my system.

If you are downloading a file and accidentally shut down Opera, at one time you would get a warning notice that files where still downloading. That doesn't happen any more. Is there any way to re-enable this option?

That being said in your case if it was mine I would just copy all the contents of my old Profile folder to the new install. Done it myself successfully a number of time in the past. No warranties implied